“Now, Veronica,” he pleaded, “Veronica, this is most unreasonable. But I said I wouldn't drive a hard bargain with you, and I
won't. Died short, I suppose, and the girls had to shift for
themselves. ”
“If you tempt me too much,” she said, after a silence, “I shall do it. “I have spoken too many truths to-night. "Dreamed!" echoed the knight, with a ghastly smile. The latter looked very pale, either from
the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed
emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling. For her mother to betray her seemed
inevitable, but the betrayal seemed worse than her fate. ’
‘But, sister, I—’
‘Get along!’
Melusine gave Jack a smile as he cast a worried look at her, and nodded
dismissal. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and
inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he
got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank
you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. She remained stonily in the middle of the
hallway until the spinsters' door shut them from view … for ever.
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